Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies

by Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Book Overview

Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity--a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parre as Shimizu--aggravates Asian American male sexual problems both on and off screen.

Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804773017
• ISBN13: 9780804773010
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"